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Example and Effort. 



AN ADDRESS, 

Delivered before the Congressional Temperance Society, at 
Washington, D. C, 



HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, 

Vice-President of the United States. 






New York : 

National Temperance Society and Publication House, 

No. 58 READE STREET. 

1872. 

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by 

J. X. STEARNS, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



JOHN ROSS AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 27 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK. 



EXAMPLE AND EFFORT. 



I COME before you, this beautiful afternoon, 
not to speak to you about political parties, 
no: about the details and conflicts of legislation. 
I come to speak to you, if possible, heart to heart 
and soul to soul. Not to denounce, but to per- 
suade ; not to demand, but to plead. I come to 
speak to you, this afternoon, for liberty — that liber- 
ty which makes us free ; that liberty which elevates 
body and soul above the thraldom of the intoxi- 
cating cup. 

But few years have passed since this land rock- 
ed to its centre on the question whether human 
slavery should continue on its soil. That was 
but the slavery of the body. It was but for this 
life. But the slavery against which 1 speak, this 
afternoon, is the slavery not only of soul and 
body, and brain, and heart, for this life, but it is a 
slavery which goes beyond the gates of the tomb 
to an infinite eternity. I scarcely know, when I 
rise to speak on this subject, where to commence 
an appeal to my fellow-men. It seems to me the 
ravages of this monster, this foe of humanity, this 
enemy of mankind, are so apparent that even the 
most eloquent would fail to add anything to what 
your own eyes witness, month by month of your 



4 , Example and Effort. 

lives. Answer this question to your own hearts. 
Is there one man or one woman here this after- 
noon that cannot think now of some loved relative 
or some valued friend who has been dragged 
down from prosperity and happiness and useful- 
ness to a slavery which embrutes and degrades 
its victim before it buries him in the death of the 
tomb ? Not one ; I think not one but can remem- 
ber some honored or dear friend who has been 
stricken down by this evil, that to-day in this land, 
more than all else, makes misery, anguish, un- 
happy homes, pauperism, crime, murder, self- 
destruction. It is indeed a terrible tyrant, the 
insatiate monster of intemperance. In the thou- 
sands of years that have elapsed since this sacred 
Word came from inspiration, every year has been 
realized the truthfulness of that series of striking 
and startling questions — realized to-day in Wash- 
ington as elsewhere : " Who hath woe ? Who hath 
sorrow ? Who hath strife ? Who hath babbling ? 
Who hath wounds without cause ? Who hath red- 
ness of eyes. They that tarry long at the wine. 
They that go to seek mixed wine." We speak of 
the horrors of war, and there are horrors in war. 
Carnage, and bloodshed, and mutilation, and 
empty sleeves, and broken frames, and widows* 
weeds, and children's woes, and enormous debt, 
and grinding taxation, all come from war, though 
even war may be a necessity to save a nation's 
life. But they fail in all their horrors compared 
with those that flow from intemperance. We 
shudder as we read of the ravages of * the pesti- 



Example and Effort* 5 

lence that walked abroad at noonday, but the 
pestilence, like war, kills only the body and leaves 
the soul unharmed. Our blood runs cold as we 
hear from Persia and elsewhere of famine, starv- 
ing to death its thousands of victims. But all 
sink into insignificance when compared with the 
sorrow, and anguish, and woe, that follow in the 
train of this conqueror of fallen humanity. I 
scarcely dare cite to you the appalling figures of 
the terrible aggregation of these miseries. 

Have you heard of those terrible statistics the 
census reveals, that there are four hundred thousand 
more people to-day engaged in the manufacturing 
and sale of liquors than in preaching God's Word 
and in teaching the rising generation in our 
schools or colleges ? Have you thought of that 
saddening and gloomy fact that every year sixty 
thousand of our people march voluntarily, self- 
destroyed, down through a drunkard's life to the 
drunkard's death and grave? Where can we turn 
to see anything that relieves this sad and dark 
picture? Go to the poor-houses of New York. 
Seventy-two thousand wrecks of humanity are 
supported by the taxation of the people in the 
poor-houses of New York. And of those seventy- 
two thousand it has been ascertained that more 
than one-half came to their present ruin directly 
through liquor. But turn from New York to the 
broad and continental domain of our Republic. 
If there are seventy-two thousand in New York, 
there are seven hundred thousand in the poor- 
houses of the States and Territories of the nation. 



6 Example and Effort. 

And if half of these in New York have been 
dragged down from happiness and a competence 
to pauperism and wretchedness by liquor, there 
are nearly three hundred thousand families in 
this country shipwrecked for ever by slavery to 
this monster evil. When the habit was first form- 
ed, they could have snapped it with infant hands, 
but now it stiffens on older limbs like gyves of 
iron. 

Imagine if you can that you could change, by 
some magical or auspicious power, this condition 
of affairs. Imagine that you could return these 
three hundred and fifty thousand families to pro- 
ductive industry in this land ; that you could re- 
turn to the people all the vast amount that is now 
squandered in intemperance ; give back these 
fathers to their families ; that those engaged in 
the manufacture and sale of liquor might become 
actual producers, adding to the development of 
our resources and the avails of our industry ; and 
that the seven hundred million dollars, paid for 
that which puts an enemy into your mouth to 
steal away your brains, that which in three years 
would pay your national debt, could be diverted 
into channels of usefulness and enterprise. What 
a change this would make ! what a paradise al- 
most it would render our Republic! 

I see before me, to-day, as I look on this audi- 
ence, many persons distinguished in Washington 
in political life, in social life, in business life. But 
some of them, 1 fear, are to-day voluntarily enroll- 
ed in the great army of moderate drinkers. 



Example and Effort, 7 

When we appeal to them to give the force of their 
personal example and the force of their personal 
influence to the suppression of this evil, their 
answer is that they have strength to resist ; they 
can quit when they please. Possibly they may, 
but before you all I can frankly acknowledge to 
you, from what I have seen in public and in private 
life, I dare not touch or taste or handle the intoxi- 
cating bowl ! You say you are strong. I can 
point you to those who are stronger tenfold over 
than you, who began as you have, and who lost 
their power of resistance, before they knew they 
were in the thraldom of the tempter, and went 
down before the people of this country to a 
drunkard's death, and sleep to-day in a drunkard's 
grave. You say you are strong in intellect. I 
can point you to men tenfold stronger in intellect 
and judgment, who laughed to scorn the appeals 
of their fellow-men, and ended at last in going over 
that terrible abyss into the drunkard's tomb. I 
dislike to present to you- personal illustrations. 
Yet some of them rise to my mind as I speak. I 
will give no name nor States. I remember a 
gentleman with a charming and loving wife, dis- 
tinguished as a speaker. 1 have listened to him 
with interest and enthusiasm, as his eloquence 
thrilled my heart. I have sat with him in the 
councils of the nation. One time, I remember, 
when the scales hung in Congress doubtfully, 
when a single vote was to decide a most import- 
ant question — I remember his coming to his seat 
so intoxicated, so lost to all conceptions of what 



8 Example and Effort, 

were the convictions of his judgment, and for 
which I suppose he would almost have given his 
life to secure their triumph, he was only kept in 
his seat to vote by having a friend stationed at 
every door from which he could obtain exit to 
seek more of the liquor which had already mad- 
dened his brain. I remember another, one of the 
most brilliant conversationalists to whom I ever 
have listened — a man who adorned his conversa- 
tion and his speeches with the most beautiful and 
classic illustrations, showing a culture far above 
what I possess or could ever hope to. I saw him 
going each year downward, constantly claiming 
that he " could stop where he pleased ; but, at last, 
embruted, degraded, and dishonored, reckless 
and friendless, careless whether he lived or not, 
he died the death of the inebriate, unsorrowed and 
unmourned. I remember another, a warm and 
generous, genial heart, whose impulses were ever 
toward the right. He swayed the hearts of the 
people before him, and stirred them with his own 
enthusiasm, having a magnetic sympathy with his 
hearers as much as any man I had ever met or 
heard on the stump. But I saw him in this 
very capital, in spite of promises that never 
would he again touch intoxicating spirits, seduced 
by fashion and usage and temptation, till at 
last he cared no more for the duties devolved on 
him than the worst vagrant you can find on your 
streets when under the influence of liquor, but 
when out from under its effect would, with tears 
in his eyes, pray God and man to resist tempta- 



Example and Effort. 9 

tion. My friends, from the most learned profes- 
sions, from the bench and the bar, from even the 
sacred desk, this demon, like death, has seemed 
to love to choose a shining mark. Not the narrow 
soul and heart, not the one who clutches the 
pennies in his grasp, are the most in danger ; but 
the genial, large-hearted men, who are not fortified 
as we are fortified by the determination not to 
yield to the first temptation. None of them are 
safe. From every profession he has drawn his 
victims. There is but one class whence he has 
never drawn any. The coronet on the brow of 
the noble of the earth, the grandest statesman- 
ship, the highest culture, the most brilliant elo- 
quence, have not saved men. There is but one 
class that has defied him, and will to the end. It 
is we who stand, God helping us, with our feet 
on the rock of safety, against which the waves of 
temptation may dash, but they shall dash in vain. 
I implore you to come and stand with us. I plead 
with you, for I believe that all mankind are my 
brethren. I believe in the fatherhood of God and 
the brotherhood of man. And if I see an inebri- 
ate reeling along the street, I feel that, though 
debased and fallen, he is my brother still, created 
in the image of God, destined to an eternal here- 
after. And it should be your duty and mine to 
take him by the hand, and seek to place his feet on 
the same rock of safety with ours. Work like 
this is what gave the triumph to the Washing- 
tonian cause, when it swept so magnificently over 
the land in its wonderful mission. They recog- 



IO Exampk mid Effort, 

nized the duty that I am trying to roll upon you 
— individual responsibility. They recognized that 
the inebriate was their brother-man, and that they 
owed a duty to him. How many of you have 
gone to your fellow-men when you have seen 
them on the shore of destruction, and tried to 
save them ? Not one ! Not one ! How dare 
you, on your knees, ask God to bless you and 
yours, when you have not thus proved that you 
love your neighbor as yourself? This is what 
we need in the land — a revival in this direction ; 
that those who preach in your pulpits, that those 
who speak on your platform, that those who write 
for the press, should impress more vividly on 
your souls what your duty is. More than all 
things else, we need a temperance revival. Whom 
would it harm ? Any one ? No, no. 

What is needed is a temperance revival based 
on the principle of individual responsibility. Not 
asking for law, and then sitting down to see it exe- 
cute itself. No ! It is by laboring individually and 
collectively, week after week, and month after 
month, with those already in the thraldom of the 
tempter, and pleading with the rising generation 
to join this army and take its pledge. It is the 
pledge which should be written on our banners. 
Sympathy for the fallen should be its inspiration. 
The lifting up of our fellow-man should be our 
only reward. And we should find an abundant 
joy in labor which brought forth such noble fruit. 

See how blessed and triumphant has been just 
such a work in Connecticut ; and what has beer 



Example and Effort. i i 

done there can be done in every State and every 
localitv where there are faithful workers and will- 
ing hearts. 

I cut the following from the Boston Journal 
yesterday, and I trust it will rejoice you all as it 
did me : 

Willimantic, Conn., March 9. 

A little more than a year ago, Rev. Horace Winslow, pastor of 
the Congregational church in this place, organized a temperance 
movement, under the form of "The Good Samaritans," which is 
similar* in its workings to the old " Washingtonians," by means 
of moral suasion. A friend furnished, lighted, and warmed a hall 
gratuitously, till there was interest enough wakened to secure 
means to pay the rent. Meetings an hour long have been held 
every Sabbath evening, 5.30 o'clock, ever since. At the first meet- 
ing there were present 30 persons, only one of whom was a fe- 
male. At the second there were about 60 present. Now, every 
meeting the Franklin Hall is packed to the utmost. A few Sab- 
bath evenings since there must have been over 700 present, a 
good portion of whom were females. 

The exercises at these meetings-, which are opened with prayer, 
consist in singing by a temperance choir, short addresses, most- 
ly by the members, and singing the pledge. At every meeting, 
more or less singers are obtained ; for several weeks past from 
20 to 30 at each meeting. The society now numbers over 1,100. 
Many of these were habitual drinkers, and not a few of the active 
members were confirmed drunkards. The Irish also have a Tem- 
perance Association called the "St. Joseph Temperance Society," 
which is efficient in its influence among this class of the people. 

The whole village is thoroughly roused and penetrated to the 
very heart by the influence of these movements. 

This Good Samaritan enterprise, in many parts of the State, is 
producing wonderful results. At Rockville, the movement com- 
menced about a year ago, and now the society numbers over 1,100, 
who have signed the pledge. In New Britain the reformation is 
still more wonderful, the pledge having been signed by about 
5,000, and in Hartford by between 4,000 and 5,000. God speed this 
good work through the State and land ! A. B. 



12 Example and Effort. 

Have you thought of the fact that in this land 
there are half a million of the rising generation 
learning to drink every year who never drank 
before? Half a million of the young, just step- 
ping upon the threshold of life, buoyant with joy 
and hope, but falling into the habit of those around 
them ? That they are at the counter learning to 
drink? And you know the result, what follows, 
not in all cases, but in many of them, from this 
sad habit. 

What is doing to save them? What is doing 
to check the ravages of this monster? I am al- 
ways filled with regret after such a meeting as 
this that no pledge is circulated and signed. I 
know the power there is in this pledge. I am 
not old, but I can realize its effect as I look back 
to the time when I was entering upon manhood, 
five-and-twenty years ago. 

There were 250,000 who signed the pledge in 
Ohio in a single year, among them many heads 
of families who, thereafter, trained up their chil- 
dren in the paths of sobriety. 

Never was there such a work known in this 
country as that of the Washingtonians. Law- 
yers, doctors, ministers, statesmen, editors, teach- 
ers, men and women, temperate men and inebri- 
ates, joined on the platform of the pledge. And 
it went on conquering. May God put into the 
heart of our people the same interest and the 
same sense of responsibility ! 

Daniel Webster was once asked what was the 
most important thought that ever occurred to his 



Exahtple and Effort. 1 3 

mind. He placed his hands on his brow, paused, 
and then replied, " The most important thought 
that ever occurred to me is the sense of my indi- 
vidual responsibility to God and man." I need 
not continue. I know how poor the words are 
compared to the emotions of the heart that seeks 
voice in these words. 

If I should add one more remark, I would call 
your attention to the remarkable testimony from 
Joliet last week; there are 1,020 people of the 
State of Illinois who, to atone to the law for its 
violation, are locked up and doomed to labor for 
the State, with their heads shaven and with de- 
grading clothing on them. Of the 1,020 there 
were 950 who signed a petition to the Legislature 
of Illinois stating that intoxication brought them 
to their present unhappy condition, and they beg 
these representatives of the people to save, if 
possible, the rest of their citizens from their un- 
happy fate. It almost reminds me of what is in 
this Word, of Dives in torment wanting to have 
some messenger to go to his family and ask them 
to save themselves from the fate that had come to 
him. 

Have you thought of the additional fact that, 
if there were 950 men in that one State of Illinois, 
voluntarily testifying that for their crimes they 
are suffering the terrible and shameful penalties 
of intoxication, there are at least 14,000 people to- 
day languishing far from wife and child and home, 
dishonored by the sentence of the law, in this Union 
of ours, for crimes to which they have been led 



i^ Example and Effort. 

by the influence of drink? Would you realize 
the full aggregation of sorrow ? Then go with 
me down to the individual home of the man who 
began life with wife and means and happiness, 
who has become a slave to this demon and wears 
his fetters on his limbs. Do you find happiness 
there ? Do you find contentment there ? Do you 
find prosperity ? Ah ! no. Do you find love and 
confidence ? No, no. Does the wife's cheek 
light up with joy when her husband comes home 
as the shadows lengthen with each returning eve? 
On the contrary, her blood chills and her cheek 
pales at the step of him who pledged her a life of 
devotion for the loving heart she should give to 
him, and from whom she now fears the smiting 
blow or the bitter word. 

My friends, I need not continue this. I leave it 
with you. All inspiration combines to give you 
fearful and impressive warning. From this very 
inspired Word, where God declares that no drunk- 
ard should enter the kingdom of heaven, there 
comes a voice from the Infinite lips saying to you 
and to me and to all : " Beware, beware ! M In that 
land where the streets are gold, and the gates are 
pearl, and the walls are jasper and sapphire, the 
finger of God has written, u No drunkard shall 
enter here." No drunkard shall sit down in the 
kingdom of heaven. I know not why it is there. 
It may be because he has voluntarily debased the 
image of God in which he was created. It may 
be because he has given himself up to the tempt- 
ation which leads one away from that which is 



Example and Effort. 15 

of good report, virtuous, and just. But whatever 
mav be the reason, from that Book which never 
errs comes this warning to us, "Beware!" To 
you it saws, " Beware!" To the moderate drink- 
er it says. 4k Beware!" The man you met, this 
afternoon, reeling- in his cups on the sidewalk — the 
man you have seen drinking at the counter of the 
lowest saloon, began just as you begin. Poor- 
houses and prisons say to you, " Beware!" They 
whose arms were nerve, and whose forms were 
grace, to-day, dead from intoxication, say to you, 
with their gloomy lesson, "Beware!" Homes 
once happy, now miserable : wives once joyous in 
the love of their husbands, now turned to hatred, 
while the caresses of the husband are turned to 
abuse, and competence to poverty, from the midst 
of their miseries and desolation warn you and 
exclaim " Beware !" 

To your own hearts and consciences I leave the 
question to decide. In the language of an emi- 
nent champion of temperance, I might say, " If 
wine-drinking can be easily given up by you, give 
it up for your example on your fellow-men. If 
wine-drinking you hnd to be difficult to give up, 
give it up for your own sake. 

Choose you this day whether you and yours 
will stand with us on the rock of safety, above the 
snares, and evil, and anguish, and misery, and 
woe, and desolation of the tempter ; whether, defy- 
ing the warnings that Nature and Inspiration com- 
bine to give, you will go down, down, after the first 
step (for it is always the first that costs), that easy 



1 6 Example a?id Effort. 

descent, until at last, wretched and dishonored, 
having lost the respect of others and your own 
self-respect, you end a miserable life by a home in 
a tomb, from which there is, if Inspiration be true, 
no resurrection that shall take you to a better 
land. Does not your hope for happiness, here 
and hereafter, give emphasis to that one word 
which embodies all I can say to you, which comes 
from God's own lips, " Beware " ? 









Example and Effort. 






AN ADDRESS, 

Delivered before the Congressional Temperance Society, at 
Washington, 1). C, 



HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, 












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